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'^^ PRACTICAL PLANS 

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District School Houses, 

FOR THE USE AND GUIDANCE OF 

School Boards and Officers. 



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School Architect and Engineer of Heating and Ventilating. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by J. A. 'Bancroft & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



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J. A. BANCROFT & CO., 

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LIQUID SLATING, NATURAL SLATE, 

Black Boards, Easels, &o., &g. 



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General Specifications. 



MASON'S -WORK. 

Cellar, 2 feet deep, to be dug under the entire building; trenches for foundations and piers, 6 
inches deeper; earth to be graded around the outside of wall, one foot high, and sloping from building 
on all sides. 

Foundation walls, and piers for centre girders, to be of rubble stone, laid up solidly in mortar; to 
be one foot thick and 6 feet high, from cellar bottom to under side of sills. Stone piers, 3 feet deep, 
to be built to support posts of outside steps. 

Chimney flues to be of brick, 12 inches square on inside, built on strong brackets. Inside walls to 
be plastered — two coats, and whitewashed. 



Carpenter's VTork. 

Timber. — Sills and Girder, 4X8; Floor-beams, 3X^5 
Posts, 6X6; Window Studs and Plates, 4X6; Filling-in- 
Studs, 2X6; Inside Partition Studding, 2 X 4 — doubled around 
doors ; Ceiling Joists, 2X8; Rafters, 3X^5 Floor-bridging, 
2X3. Rafters and ceiling joists to be strongly trussed with 
plank The outside of walls and roof to be sheathed with hem- 
lock boards Corner boards and siding to be of pine. Roofs 
covered with A 1 sawed shingles ; Valleys, &c., flushed with tin. 
Roofs to project 3 feet, ceiled with narrow boards to under side 
of rafter ; brackets to be 4 inches thick — solid. Cornice to be 



moulded, and tin or zinc gutters and leaders put up. Outside 
steps I ', inch thick, enclosed with 1 inch narrow worked beaded 
pine, finished with 6 inch pine posts and 3X4 hand rails. 
Sashes iJ inch thick, hung with cords and weights in ik inch 
pine box frames. Porches and ventilating belfries to be built 
as shown in the drawings. Floors to be of Norway pine, 1 1 inch. 
Window and door casings to be 4J inches wide, with 2* in. back 
moulding. Doors to be i o inch thick, 4 panels, hung with loose 
butts and strong rim locks, and opening outwards. School-room 
windows to have plain insitie rolling blinds; wardrobe windows 
to have the glass frosted or painted on inside. Wardrobes 
to be wainscoted with narrow pine beaded boards, 6 feet 



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high. The School-room to be wainscoted 3 feet high, and 
the Vestibules 4 feet high. Ventilating shafts to be made of 
worked boards, started from the floor, continued up through 
the attic into the belfry. Each shaft to have two openings, 
one near floor and one near ceiling, each closed with small 
shutters, hung at the lower edge, opening into the shaft, and 
worked with cords. A plain corner, iron enamelled wash 
basin to be put in, with waste pipe of lead or tin. 
Teacher's closets and libraries to be fitted up with all necessary 
shelving. Build a trap-door and stairs to cellar, in boys' ward- 
robe. Two water-closets to be built, each 4X6 feet ; vaults to 
be 5 feet deep, laid up with dry stone wall, to be circular, 4 feet 
inside diameter : hemlock frame, pine siding, shingle roof, 
battened doors — each with lock ; inside to be divided, with two 
seats in each division. 

All materials to be of good quality, and the work done in the 
strongest and most substantial manner. 



Ziocation <&, General Hezxxarks. 

The ground selected should be high and dry, easy of access, 
and, if possible, should not be less than one acre. The building 
should be placed in the centre, the cellar dirt thrown up around 
it, and the lot graded from the building to the edges ot the lot ; 
no surface hollows should be left for water to lay in. The lot 
should be enclosed in a neat, substantial fence, and divided at the 
rear by a division fence, to keep the boys and girls separate. 
The water-closets should be placed in the rear angles of the lot. 



A number of shade trees should be planted in the front of the 
lot, and also in the play-grounds. Every School-house should 
have a cellar under it. The building will last almost twice as 
long, as the timber will keep dry. A place must be provided for 
wood and coal, and a cellar costs no more than a wood-shed, and 
requires no repairs. 

Wardrobes should always open into the School-room, and not 
into halls or vestibules, as is generally the case. Where they 
open into the room, the clothing is under the supervision of, 
and it cannot be taken or injured without the Teacher being 
aware of it. 

In regard to the estimates of cost accompanying these plans, 
any of them can be modified so as to reduce the cost from 10 to 
25 per cent, below the estimates given. Should none of these 
plans suit, the Architect has a large assortment of others, all of 
which are at our service. We have also arranged with him to 
furnish any of our customers with all necessary information in 
regard to the best and newest methods of School building, heating, 
lighting, ventilation, furnishing, &c. All correspondence on 
these subjects will be referred to him, and answered as promptly 
as the nature of the questions will permit. 

A popular error exists in the method of arranging seats in a 
School-room. They are generally placed the largest in the rear 
of the room, ranging to the smallest, which occupy the front. 
A much more desirable plan, and one which of late has been 
adopted by our best schools, is that of having only one size of 
desk in each row. For example, let the two outside rows be of 
a size for largest pupils, the centre row for smaller, or reverse, 
and place the smaller on the outside, &c. 



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Side Elevation. 

DISTRICT SCHOOL HOUSE "A. 



Floor Plan. 
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN "A." 

This is designed for a cheap style of building, everything superfluous being 
omitted Its capacity can be changed by adding or taking oft' two feet in length 
for every six pupils, more or less, as may be required. The building has no 
cellar, but is to be built on cedar posts, or piers of wood or stone, and the space 
below the building boarded up. Floor plan 20 X ^8. It is 2j feet above the 
ground. Girders and Sills, 4X8 inches; Floor Beams, 2X8; Posts, iz feet 
high The Rafters are 2 X 6—16 feet long, and are tied 14 feet from the floor 
with ceiling joists l] X 6 inches, supported and stiffened in the centre by stay 
lath from the rafters The window glass is 10 X 18— sashes hung; Vestibule 
doors, 30X70; Closet door, 2.2X7 ° The Wardrobes form arched recesses, 
without doors. The exterior is not sheathed; the weather boarding, I inch 
thick, is nailed directly to the frame Bins for fuel are made under the building 

The cost of a building to seat 40 pupils, put up in this style, should not 
exceed $700.00. 



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General Description. 

Design 1. 

This building is 26 X 32 feet, and is a very conveniently 
arranged building. The ceiling is designed to be 14 feet high 5 
12 feet would, however, make a good height, but the former is 
the best. The principal entrances are at the rear, the front 
entrance being designed for visitors, or for the public when meet- 
ings are required to be held in the building. The Teacher's 
platform is at the rear, against a blank wall, which affords space 
for maps, black board surface, &c. On each side of the platform 
is a Teacher's closet and book closet — these should be in every 
schjol. The wardrobes are large, fitted up with iron clothes 
hooks ; they and the front vestibule are lighted by a head-light 
over each door. Black boards, 3^ feet high, extend all around 
the room, above the wainscoting. The outside is neat and 
tasteful. The roof projects 4 feet, supported by frame brackets; 
the porch over front door is built to correspond. The ventilating 
belfry is large and strong enough for a 200 lb. bell. The room 
will seat 56 pupils, in double seats, as follows, each size in 
separate row or rows : — 16 Primary, 28 Secondary, 12 Grammar. 
Wall aisles 3 feet, middle aisles nearly 2 feet wide. This build- 
ing will cost between Si, 100. 00 and $1,300.00, according to 
locality. In some parts of Pennsylvania it might cost less than 
the first named sum. This building could easily be enlarged to 
double its si2e, and make a double School. 



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Design 2. 

This building covers more ground than No. i, 
and is a large and very convenient building. 
The main building is 26 X 32 feet, and the front 
projection, in which are the wardrobes and vesti- 
bules, is 6 X 20 feet. The wardrobes are roomy, 
and open into the School-room immediately ad- 
joining the vestibules. The wardrobes and vesti- 
bules are well lighted through the double front 
windows. The School-room ceiling is 13 feet 
high, and the room is well lighted from six large 
windows; the glass in them is 12X15 inches. 
The long blank wall behind the Teacher's plat- 
form affords fine space for maps and black boards. 
The angles of the room are cut off for Teacher's 
closet and book closet. The wardrobes will be 
fitted up with clothes hooks Black boards, 3] 
feet high, will extend all around the School-room, 
above the wainscoting. The outside presents a 
good appearance, the three gables making it very 
attractive. The roof will project 3 feet on all 
sides, and the cornice will be fitted up with 
brackets and mouldings. The belfry is similar to 
the preceding plan, but a little more ornamental. 
The room will seat 62 pupils, in gothic double 
desks, each size in separate row or rows, as fol- 
lows : — 14 Primary, 28 Secondary, 20 Grammar. 
Aisles 2 and 3 feet wide. This building will 
cost from $1,400.00 to $1,600.00, according to 
locality. 



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General Description. 

Design 3. 

This building is 26 X 32 feet, ceiling 14 feet high, and is 
a very commanding building in external appearance. The 
entrances are at the front, and immediately adjoining them are 
the wardrobes, properly fitted up with clothes hooks. The 
two wardrobes are separated by a closet for the Teacher's use, 
for books, &c. In this plan the Teacher's platform is placed 
in the front, near the doors. This arrangement is preferred 
by many Teachers. If otherwise, the platform could be 
placed against the rear wall, where there would be more blank 
wall for black boards, &c. Black boards extend all around the 
room, as in the previous plans. A wash-stand is also placed 
in one of the rear corners. The wardrobes and closet are well 
lighted. The vestibules are lighted by fan-lights over the 
front doors. The windows have I2X IS glass. The roof 
projects three feet on all sides, supported by sawn brackets. 
The belfry is large and imposing, but is easily built. The 
doors are well protected by the porches, supported on 
brackets. This building will seat 56 pupils, each size desk 
in separate row or rows, as follows : — 16 Primary, 28 
Secondary, 12 Grammar. By adding two feet to its length it 
will seat 64. This building would also look well if built 
long enough for two rooms. The cost of this building, as 
shown, will be from §1,400.00 to $1,600.00. 



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General Description. 

Design 4. 

This building is 22 X 34 *eet, and the projections 
on the sides give variety to its appearance. It is not 
so stifFor formal in its style. This building could be 
enlarged sufficiently for two rooms, and make a very 
handsome building. The ceiling of this School-room 
is 14 feet high. The vestibules are light and roomy, 
and are convenient of access to the wardrobes ; these 
are fitted up the same as the preceding plans. Be- 
tween the two wardrobes is the teacher's closet. 
The School-room is lighted by six windows — glass, 
12 y 15. Black boards extend all around the 
School-room. A wash-bowl is placed in the rear 
corner. The roof projects 3 feet on all sides ; the 
gables are ornamented with open timber work. The 
roof of vestibules extends forward a sufficient distance 
to form a porch over front steps. This building will 
seat 52 pupils, as follows, each size desk in a row : — 
20 primary, 18 secondary, 14 grammar. This num- 
ber could be enlarged by lengthening the building. 
This building will cost from §1,350.00 to $1,575.00, 
according to locality. 



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Public School at Ml Joy P —Elected I 7 

DISTRICT SCHOOL HOUSE, No. 12. 



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General Description. 

The building is of brick, and is strongly and substantially built. It is two 
and a half stories in height, and is covered with a slate roof. The belfry or 
tower is seventy-five feet high, and contains a very rich, fine-toned bell, weigh- 
ing eleven hundred pounds. The basement or half story is all above ground, 
and is divided into three sections, one of which is used by the girls, and another 
by the boys, as a play-ground iu cold or stormy weather. The third section 
contains fuel rooms and two furnaces, which heat the building very thoroughly. 
The basement story is nine feet high, and is well lighted. The first floor con- 
tains four good school-rooms, each seating fifty-four pupils, and the second floor 
has two large rooms, each seating ninety-six pupils, and in connection with 
these two rooms are two large recitation rooms, each capable of seating thirty- 
six pupils. All the school-rooms have large wardrobes attached to them ; by 
this arrangement the putting on or oflf of clothing is under the direct supervision 
of the teacher, and the destruction of clothing and confusion of a general cloak- 



room avoided. In each wardrobe is a cast-iron wash-bowl and water-cooler, 
thus supplying each room with good drinking water, and also with the 
means of cleanliness. There are two large stairways in the building, and 
with the three outside doors opening from the hall, and the four doors 
in the basement, the building could be emptied without confusion in three 
or four minutes, in case of a panic All outside doors open outward. The 
rooms are wainscoted three feet high, and black-boards occupy every available 
space on the walls of each room The room ceilings are 14 and 15 feet high, 
and great pains have been taken to ensure thorough ventilation Each room is 
lighted from the sides and rear, and no pupil sits facing the light, (which, by 
the way, is a common source of short sightedness.) The building, exclusive of 
heating apparatus and furniture, costs about $14,800.00, and is designed to 
accommodate four hundred pupils It is furnished throughout with the im- 
proved and popular Gothic Furniture of J A. Bancroft & Co., Philadelphia. 
For beauty, comfort and durability, in this respect, it is unsurpassed by any 
school building in the country. 



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Which will repay careful consideration. 



The Gothic Curved -Back Desk, 

TTITH FOUJINO SEAT AND FOOT REST. 



iBt,— This Desk is admitted to be 
tlie most comfortable of any. 
The Ctirved Back and Seat were 
designed by Prof. Cutter, the 
eminent physiologist, and are 
true to anatomical principles: 
the inclination of the former 
and the curve of the latter are so 
correct that they conform ex- 
actly to the person of the occu- 
pant, and force the pupil to 
an easy, upright and healthy 
position. 

2d, — A valuable improvement 
makes this Desk the Most Re- 
cent and perfect in the market. 

3d,— The Desk is provided with an Adjustable 
Foot Rest, shown iu the engraving, which 
affords a most enjoyable relief from the fatigue 
of sitting. The pupils being more comfortable 
when their feet are on the Rest, keep them there, 
thus preventing the noise from constant scrap- 
ing on the floor. These Foot Rests contribute as 
much to the ease of the pupils as the Foot Rests 
in Railway Gars contribute to the comfort to 
the traveler. They are found in ow Desks alone, 
and are a feature with us. 

4th,— A perfect noiseless seat hinge is used, with 
Tliree Stops, and no strain on the bolt, [which 




for actual use could be dispensed with entirely.] 
This IS the case with no other Desk, wherein a 
bolt is used in the seat joint, and is a peculiar 
feature of extreme importance. 

5th, — The seat, when folded, almost meets the 
back of the Desk, but never touches it, and allows 
the spaces between each desk to form almost 
as free passage way as in the aisles, and en- 
tirely unimpeded by Any Projection WTiat- 



6th, — In folding or opening the Seat, it is im- 
possible to catch the clothing, pinch theflngers, 
or otherwise cause discomfort. 



7th,— The Iron in the Castings is 
so distributed, as to secure the 
greatest possible strength where 
the most pressure comes, while 
the proportions of the Desk and 
ornamented Gothic Castings are 
tasteful and elegant. In addi- 
tion. We Guarantee every cast- 
ing we send out. By actual test, 
they have sustained a weight of 
over 1600 pounds, without injury. 

8th,— The Castings have a very 
wide, continuous flange, for the 
better attachment of the wood- 
broad base, — and a greater num- 
ber of screw boles for the floor. The patent 
Non-corrosive Ink Well and Cover is supplied, 
and is the best known. 

9th,— An extra wide Book Shelf will be noticed 
in the engraving. The Desls: is the Best 
Finished in the U. S., while the sizes will be 
found larger than the corresponding grades of 
others. 

10th,— By special points of merit, partially 
given here, we have endeavored to make 
this Desk of More Talue to our customer, 
at the same time making our list prices less 
than others. 



TH£ GOTHIC DESK has been adopted annually, for Four successive Years, iu the Philadelphia Public Schools, 

and over 20,000 Seats are now in use. Scores of thousands are now in use throughout the 

middle States, and the demand is constantly increasing. 



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The Gothic Inclined -Back Desk, 

TTITH FOLDIIVG SEAT. 



This Desk, in appearance, com- 
fortand strength resembles closely, 
and Is similar to the Gothic Curved 
Back Deslt, as before. Quality and 
sizes are the same. The back is 
not so decided In curvature, but is 
Inclined at an angle wliich, with 
the curved seat, conforms to the 
shape of the body, and is extremely 
comfortable. The Foot Rest is 




The Patent Standard Desk, 

WITH CTJRVEr> SEAT. 



This handsome Desk has 
been constructed with spe- 
cial reference to providing a 
substantial, comfortable and 
compact Desk for District 
Schools, at or near the cost of 
the ordinary "Home-made" 
or Pine Furniture, but far 
superior In durability, com- 
fort and appearance. It has 
all the advantages in Curved 
Seat, Inclined Back, Wide 



omitted, as well as the Patent Sli- 
vered Ink Well and Cover, an orna- 
mented iron one being furnished 
in its place. The handsome and 
strong castings, with compact fold- 
ing curved seat and wide shelves, 
will be specially noticed. For a 
medium priced Patent Desk this is 
unsurpassed, and is fully guaran- 
teed. 




Shelf, and Handsome Cast- 
ings, that are incorporated 
in the Gothic Patent Desks 
as before. The sizes are pre- 
cisely the same. In cases 
where the funds are limited, 
this will be found to be spe- 
cially adapted, and is poH- 
tiveiy the Strongest Desk 
in the market. The Iron 
Frames can be readily Ke- 
wooded, and will last for 
generations. 



For full description, sizes, &e., of our Furniture and Apparatus, please send for our descriptive Catalogues of same. 
For the opinions of those, of whom you know, as to actual School Room Test of our Desks, send for " A Few Appropriate 
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A REVOLUTION IN SABBATH SOHOOL SEATING!! 



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Tke Bancroft Improved Reversible Settee, 




FOR SUNDAY SOHOOL, LECTUSE AND ASSEMBLY, ROOMS. 



new, novel and complete Settee ia constructed on purely physiological principles. The back and seat form a continuous 
e, which fits the body exactly. In reTersuif:. the back swings under instead of over, and in turn becomes the seat; valuable 
are thus secured that are nvknown in amj other Settee, with an entire absence of complicated mechanism. 
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ALBERT N. DABB, 

A-rcMtect and Engineer of Heating and "Ventilation. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL WORK A SPECIALTY. 

Plans and Specifications for School Buildings prepared at short notice — a variety on hand. Plans prepared for the Heating and Ventilation 
of Houses now built or in progress. Plans also prepared for the re-modelling or re-construction of Old Buildings. 

TERMS MODERATE. 

Teachers, School Officers and Committees famished with information in regard to the newest and best methods of School Building. 

CORRESPONDENCE INVITED. 

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